Thanks to Stuart, Harold, and “Ann O’Numess” for identifying the Kosnac tug steaming past Riker’s in Carlito’s Way. Here’s a foto I took three years ago, and below I took of Dorothy Elizabeth (1951) in Tottenville a month ago. Might she really already be slivers of scrap?

Hercules (1963), sibling of Maverick and others, awaits her emigration with

With unusually high exhaust, that’s Marlin (1974) on left and Penn No. 6 (1970) beside her. No one has yet told me how designers decide to run such long exhausts v. equally serviceable short ones. Sea Ravenis another high-exhaust vessel.

Click here to see Kathleen Turecamo in its element, not where it stood last weekend.

Barents Sea (right) and Na Hoku . . . I wonder how long they’ve spent tied up here. I recall feeling excited when I first spotted Barents (1976) more than three years back, and Na Hoku (1981) used to work the California-Hawaii run, but I can tell you when she last floated on Pacific water.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who DOES reduce foto resolution before posting them here.

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The reason for the high exhausts on MARLIN, SEA RAVEN, & others is to prevent smoke & carbon monoxide fumes from the engines entering the wheelhouse and fresh air intakes for the engineroom and living spaces farther below. The smoke and fumes stay aloft, and out of harms way. Also keeps the boat cleaner from black soot which can ruin a nice paint job.

It would be difficult to support that long piping needed coming out of the stack of Penn No. 6 and many other tugs. Also the exhaust piping uptakes coming out of MARLIN are in a horizontal pattern side by side. The two exhaust uptakes coming out of the stack of PENN NO. 6 are in a vertical configuration front to back.